The New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) held its quarterly meeting of the Executive Committee on Wednesday, October 19th at the Embassy Suites in Saratoga Springs. The committee voted on several key proposals important to the Association’s 787-member schools.
The Executive Committee approved the NYSPHSAA softball championship becoming a two-day event starting in June 2023. Semifinals will be played on the Friday of week 49 of the standard NYSPHSAA calendar and the finals will be played on that Saturday. Also related to championships, the committee approved establishing a Game Day Cheerleading State Championship starting in October of 2023 (week #17). Queensbury High School (2024 & 2026) and Letchworth State Park (2025) were approved as hosts of the NYSPHSAA Cross Country Championships.
The sport of boys wrestling had a pair of proposals approved with the first to extend the current weight class system (13 weight classes) for the 2022-23 school year. The second was to require all coaches to use the Track Wrestling weigh-in form to enter all weigh-ins for dual meets and tournaments.
The committee approved four girls wrestling proposals. The first was to use the NFHS 12 female weight classes along with a NYSPHSAA weight class of 94 lbs. starting this season. The second was an approval for a two-year waiver for the maximum number of tournaments (6) by a wrestler for female-only tournaments. The third approval in girls wrestling was to allow a two-year waiver of the NYSPHSAA representation rule from six events to three in post season only. The final approval was to conduct a girls-only wrestling invitational was approved to begin in the 2022-23 school year and continue in the 2023-24 school year.
A boys soccer proposal to increase the number of allowable yellow cards in the postseason was defeated, 5-17, by the Executive Committee.
Action items related to the classification cut off numbers for six classes in the sports of boys basketball, girls basketball, boys soccer, girls soccer, girls volleyball, softball and baseball were tabled by the Executive Committee to allow sections to have more time to discuss the cut-off numbers. The Executive Committee will reconvene on November 1st to vote on these proposals.
The complete meeting agenda can be found here.
The list of approved items can be found here.
The meeting was called to order by President Russell Bartlett at 9:00 am and concluded at 2:00pm The next meeting of the NYSPHSAA Executive Committee will be held Wednesday, February 1st at Embassy Suites in Saratoga Springs.
